Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gibber plain

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English

Syllables: gib-ber -plain
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large desert pavement.

Australian usage

Example Sentences

"Gibber plains are often covered with a very open low shrubland (see below)."
"We were to learn also, as we approached Bedourie and Sandringham, that to the east the Simpson Desert is bounded by stony desert or Gibber plain, which interdigitates with the sandhill-claypan country."
"2011, Julie E. Laity, 9: Pavements and stone mantles, David S. G. Thomas (editor), Arid Zone Geomorphology: Process, Form and Change in Drylands, unnumbered page, Gibber plains vary in character according to local sources of bedrock, with limestone gibbers, for example, adjacent to the northern Flinders Ranges (Twidale, 1994) and silcrete gibbers mantling a deflated surface in the Sturt Stony Desert (Thomas, Clarke and Pain, 2005)."

Etymology

From gibber (“stone”) + plain.

Usage

Australian usage

Inflected Forms

gibber plains (plural)

Synonyms

stony desert stony mantle

Questions

What does gibber plain mean?: A large desert pavement.
Where does gibber plain come from?: From gibber (“stone”) + plain.

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